Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Histology Coordinator
DUTIES INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
• Coordinates day-to-day laboratory resources (personnel, supplies, reagents, ect) to meet organizational and operational needs. • Assists department leaders with staff management activities that may include work scheduling, work allocation, staff interviewing, orientation, training, competency documentation, evaluating performance and providing input for performance management actions. • Assists department leaders in monitoring quality control/assurance programs and in department preparation for and compliance with regulatory accreditation • Contributes to achievement of department goals for service, quality, regulatory compliance, financial performance, and patient and employee satisfaction. • Monitors section activities and data to improve operations. Identifies and escalates areas of variance to department leaders. • Understands and applies Quality Control, Quality Assurance principles. Actively participates in Continuous Quality Improvement. • Contributes to developing department policies and procedures as requested • Provides input into the design of workflows, systems and processes and implements corrective action plans for service/quality issues identified to drive improvement. • Acts as a resource to customers. Ensures department proactively responds to feedback from customers and implements improvement mechanisms to enhance the ability of the department to meet customer needs. • Ensures timely dissemination of information within and across departments to support continuity of service • Performs duties of a Complex Specimen Processor and Technologist Jan-20 KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: (This position requires the following minimum requirements) • Thorough knowledge of laboratory methods, demonstrates knowledge of pathology processes with correlation of disease states and results. • General knowledge of laboratory accreditation and regulatory compliance requirements • General knowledge of pathology technical component billing guidelines • Demonstrates skill in techniques required to produce high quality slides for pathologist interpretation • Excellent communication skills. Effectively presents ideas and concepts to groups in a concise manner • Effective team building and organizational skills • Ability to teach, coach and motivate staff. • Ability to assimilate and analyze information and recommend actions to be taken • Effective and proactive problem solving and decision making skills • Ability to prioritize, develop and execute plans • Ability to view work situations from a broad context understanding the interdependent nature of work processes. Considers the impact of decisions on other components of the organization. • Demonstrates ability to lead staff by setting a positive example EDUCATION: • High School Diploma and 2 years of histology experience OR, • High School Diploma and completion of an accredited program in histotechnology OR, • Associate's Degree in Chemistry, Biology and 1 year of histology experience, OR • Baccalaureate degree in Medical Technology, Biomedical Science, Biology or Chemistry CERTIFICATION/LICENSE: • National Certification as a MT(ASCP) or HT(ASCP) required • State license where required (CA, FL, GA, HI, LA, MT, NV, NY, ND, RI, TN, WV) EXPERIENCE: • 3 years of experience as Histology Technologist required
Benefits
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HCA Healthcare Laboratory Services is a full-service provider of clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology services, providing hospitals, physicians, and clients with timely diagnostic information for patient care. Our infrastructure includes a fully automated esoteric core laboratory in Fort Lauderdale, a histology and microbiology operation in Largo, Florida, and a network of hospital-based rapid-response laboratories in four HCA Healthcare divisions in Florida. Our core laboratories support over 250 acute and rehab hospitals, physician practices, surgery centers, and commercial accounts.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Histology Coordinator opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!
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At its founding in 1968, Nashville-based HCA was one of the nation's first hospital companies. Today, we are the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, a company comprised of locally managed facilities that includes about 165 hospitals and 115 freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and England and employing approximately 204,000 people. Approximately four to five percent of all inpatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities. Richard M. Bracken serves as Chairman of HCA and R. Milton Johnson is the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
HCA is committed to the care and improvement of human life and strives to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Building on the foundation provided by our Mission & Values, HCA puts patients first and works to constantly improve the care we give them by implementing measures that support our caregivers, help ensure patient safety and provide the highest possible quality. Investing in our communities is important to us. HCA typically invests about $1.5 billion annually to keep our facilities modern and up-to-date technologically and to expand and add services where needed. Focusing primarily on communities where the company is a leading healthcare provider, HCA selectively adds new facilities in order to better serve our communities.
And because two HCA founders were physicians, we value highly the strong relationships we've created with local physicians. We endeavor to provide them with a wide array of services and modern facilities in order to help them deliver the best possible care.